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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Account of Fr [Friar] James's way of cutting for the stone' by Dr [Pierre] Sylvester [Silvestre]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>The first page of the paper is written in French and describes Brother James of Beaulieu's method for removing bladder stones. The following five pages, written in English, details a particular operation performed by Brother James to remove a bladder stone from a ten-year-old boy at the convent of the Capuchins of Antwerp [Belgium]. Brother James' intervention was not particularly successful and the boy died the following day.

Subject: Surgery

First part read to the Royal Society on 10 August 1698; second part read 22 June 1699.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1690s]</dc:date>
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